ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1993). 1993 1st edition. Pbk issue. Paperback. Ppxvi,271. B/w photographs, illustrations. Slight use but a very good author's presentation copy. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to his publisher, Nick Lyons. "A thorough guide to making and tying floating bugs for all game fish - bluegill to billfish." This book "covers everything from panfish poppers to small-mouth sliders, trout terrestrials to huge billfish popping bugs, saltwater skippers to pike poppers. Bug Making covers all types of traditional, modern and innovative designs. The emphasis is on easy, effective, and durable bug construction, using all of the important materials available today: deer hair, soft closed-cell foam, cork, balsa, PVC and EVA foams, Ethafoam, hard molded foams, cut and molded foam, and even esoteric materials such as turkey quills and surfboards." Contents include:- Tools and materials; Terrestrials - designs and tying styles; Tying hair-bodied bugs; Hair-bodied bug designs; Cork bug construction; Balsa and wood bug construction; Molded bug construction; Soft-foam bug construction; Tying and finishing methods for hard-bodied bugs; Hard-bug design and styles; Painting and finishing bugs; Rigging bugs and bug-fishing tackle; Fishing methods, retrieves, and manipulation of bugs. .

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Title: BUG MAKING: A THOROUGH GUIDE TO MAKING AND TYING FLOATING BUGS FOR ALL GAMEFISH - BLUEGILL TO BILLFISH. By C. Boyd Pfeiffer.
Publisher: Lyons & Burford. New York. 1993
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1558214143
ISBN 13: 9781558214149
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Bug Making covers all types of traditional, modern, and innovative designs. The emphasis is on easy, effective, and durable bug construction, using all of the important materials available today: deer hair, soft closed-cell foam, cork, balsa, PVC and EVA foams, Ethafoam, hard molded foams, cut and molded foam, and even esoteric materials such as turkey quills and surfboards.

This exceptionally practical and thorough book, with nearly two hundred helpful black-and-white photographs, is destined to become a classic in this previously untouched - and important - field.

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Bug Making fills a distinct gap in fly-tying literature - the making and tying of all types of floating bugs. It covers everything from panfish poppers to smallmouth sliders, trout terrestrials to huge billfish popping bugs, saltwater skippers to pike poppers. Bug Making covers all types of traditional, modern, and innovative designs. The emphasis is on easy, effective, and durable bug construction, using all of the important materials available today: deer hair, soft closed-cell foam, cork, balsa, PVC and EVA foams, Ethafoam, hard molded foams, cut and molded foam, and even esoteric materials such as turkey quills and surfboards. This exceptionally practical and thorough book, with nearly two hundred helpful black-and-white photographs, is destined to become a classic in this previously untouched - and important - field. (6 X 9, 288 pages, b&W photos, diagrams, charts)

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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.

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